| 1987 | A Comparison of Self-Contained and Embedded Database Languages. A. Christensen, Torben U. Zahle |
| 1987 | A Dual Space Representation for Geometric Data. Oliver Günther, Eugene Wong |
| 1987 | A New Compression Method with Fast Searching on Large Databases. Jianzhong Li, Doron Rotem, Harry K. T. Wong |
| 1987 | A Source-to-Source Meta-Translation System for Relational Query Languages. D. I. Howells, Nick J. Fiddian, W. A. Gray |
| 1987 | An Analytical Method for Estimating and Interpreting Query Time. Hai-Yann Hwang, Yao-Tin Yu |
| 1987 | An Extended Disjunctive Normal Form Approach for Optimizing Recursive Logic Queries in Loosely Coupled Environments. Kyu-Young Whang, Shamkant B. Navathe |
| 1987 | Basis of a Partially Informed Distributed Database. Mark Blakey |
| 1987 | Behaviour Management in Database Applications. Jean-Yves Lingat, Philippe Nobecourt, Colette Rolland |
| 1987 | Constructing Database Systems in a Persistent Environment. Richard Cooper, Malcolm P. Atkinson, Alan Dearle, D. Abderrahmane |
| 1987 | Cooperative Object Buffer Management in the Advanced Information Management Prototype. Klaus Küspert, Peter Dadam, Jürgen Günauer |
| 1987 | DVSS: A Distributed Version Storage Server for CAD Applications. Denise J. Ecklund, Earl F. Ecklund Jr., Robert O. Eifrig, Fred M. Tonge |
| 1987 | Database Support for Knowledge-Based Image Evaluation. Ingrid M. Walter, Peter C. Lockemann, Hans-Hellmut Nagel |
| 1987 | Dealing with Temporal Schema Anomalies in History Databases. N. G. Martin, Shamkant B. Navathe, Rafi Ahmed |
| 1987 | Dependency Inference. Heikki Mannila, Kari-Jouko Räihä |
| 1987 | Design and Analysis of Integrated Concurrency-Coherence Controls. Daniel M. Dias, Balakrishna R. Iyer, John T. Robinson, Philip S. Yu |
| 1987 | Direct Algorithms for Computing the Transitive Closure of Database Relations. Rakesh Agrawal, H. V. Jagadish |
| 1987 | Enhancements to the Voting Algorithm. Sushil Jajodia, David Mutchler |
| 1987 | Expert Database Support for Consistent Dynamic Objects. Gia Toan Nguyen, Dominique Rieu |
| 1987 | Extending Logging for Database Snapshot Refresh. Bo Kähler, Oddvar Risnes |
| 1987 | FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language. François Bancilhon, Ted Briggs, Setrag Khoshafian, Patrick Valduriez |
| 1987 | Freeform: A User-Adaptable Form Management System. Roger King, Michael Novak |
| 1987 | Incremental Reorganization of Relational Databases. Victor M. Markowitz, Johann A. Makowsky |
| 1987 | Independent Database Schemes under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies. Paolo Atzeni, Edward P. F. Chan |
| 1987 | Index Access with a Finite Buffer. Giovanni Maria Sacco |
| 1987 | Integrity Checking in Deductive Databases. Robert A. Kowalski, Fariba Sadri, Paul Soper |
| 1987 | Integrity Constraint Reformulation for Efficient Validation. Xiaolei Qian, Douglas R. Smith |
| 1987 | Log-Based Recovery for Nested Transactions. J. Eliot B. Moss |
| 1987 | MOBY: An Architecture for Distributed Expert Database Systems. Jonathan Bein, Roger King |
| 1987 | Magic Functions: A Technique to Optimize Extended Datalog Recursive Programs. Georges Gardarin |
| 1987 | Managing Change in a Computer-Aided Design Database. Randy H. Katz, Ellis E. Chang |
| 1987 | Masking System Crashes in Database Application Programs. Johann Christoph Freytag, Flaviu Cristian, Bo Kähler |
| 1987 | Measured Performance of Time Interval Concurrency Control Techniques. Jerre D. Noe, David B. Wagner |
| 1987 | Mind Your Grammar: a New Approach to Modelling Text. Gaston H. Gonnet, Frank Wm. Tompa |
| 1987 | Multimedia Information Management in an Object-Oriented Database System. Darrell Woelk, Won Kim |
| 1987 | New Strategies for Computing the Transitive Closure of a Database Relation. Hongjun Lu |
| 1987 | Object-Oriented Specification of Databases: An Algebraic Approach. Amílcar Sernadas, Cristina Sernadas, Hans-Dieter Ehrich |
| 1987 | Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers. Umeshwar Dayal |
| 1987 | On The Satisfiability of Dependency Constraints in Entity-Relationship Schemata. Maurizio Lenzerini, Paolo Nobili |
| 1987 | Optimization of Systems of Algebraic Equations for Evaluating Datalog Queries. Stefano Ceri, Letizia Tanca |
| 1987 | PRIMA - a DBMS Prototype Supporting Engineering Applications. Theo Härder, Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Bernhard Mitschang, Andrea Sikeler |
| 1987 | Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager. Akhil Kumar, Michael Stonebraker |
| 1987 | Preferences; Putting More Knowledge into Queries. M. Lacroix, Pierre Lavency |
| 1987 | Providing Time-Related Constraints for Conventional Database Systems. T. Abbod, K. Brown, H. Noble |
| 1987 | Query Optimization by Stored Queries. Kazimierz Subieta, Wiktor Rzeczkowski |
| 1987 | Query Transformation for PSJ-Queries. H. Z. Yang, Per-Åke Larson |
| 1987 | Recursive Strategies for Answering Recursive Queries - The RQA/FQI Strategy. Wolfgang Nejdl |
| 1987 | Supporting Flat Relations by a Nested Relational Kernel. Marc H. Scholl, Heinz-Bernhard Paul, Hans-Jörg Schek |
| 1987 | The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System. Michael Stonebraker |
| 1987 | The POSTGRES Data Model. Lawrence A. Rowe, Michael Stonebraker |
| 1987 | The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Index for Multi-Dimensional Objects. Timos K. Sellis, Nick Roussopoulos, Christos Faloutsos |
| 1987 | The Theory of Probabilistic Databases. Roger Cavallo, Michael Pittarelli |
| 1987 | Translating and Optimizing SQL Queries Having Aggregates. Günter von Bültzingsloewen |
| 1987 | Using Design Axioms and Topology to Model Database Semantics. Arno Siebes, Martin L. Kersten |
| 1987 | VLDB'87, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 1-4, 1987, Brighton, England Peter M. Stocker, William Kent, Peter Hammersley |